Bug#566819: Same issue here

[Adrian Knoth]

Package: icedove
Version: 3.0.1-2
Severity: normal

Hi!

I see the same behaviour. It's a converted profile from icedove-2.x, 
and I'm not running a GNOME or KDE environment, only plain fluxbox.

strace shows upon clicking an URL:


[pid  4490] execve("/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox", ["/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox",
"http://www.snowtrex.de/oesterrei"...], [/* 50 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

The icedove package doesn't contain any reference to mozilla-firefox, at
least I wasn't able to find them with grep and strings. Same holds true
for stuff in /etc/, but I found a local config entry in ~/.gconf/:

desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/%gconf.xml:                <stringvalue>/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox &quot;%s&quot;</stringvalue>
desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml:                <stringvalue>/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox &quot;%s&quot;</stringvalue>
desktop/gnome/url-handlers/gopher/%gconf.xml:                <stringvalue>/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox &quot;%s&quot;</stringvalue>
desktop/gnome/url-handlers/chrome/%gconf.xml:                <stringvalue>/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox &quot;%s&quot;</stringvalue>
desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/%gconf.xml:                <stringvalue>/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox &quot;%s&quot;</stringvalue>

That's the culprit.

I then went to iceweasel's (weasel!) preference menu, chose the
Advanced-Tab/General and made Iceweasel the default browser.
(section System Defaults)

One could argue that icedove shouldn't care about the GNOME setting,
but simply call x-www-browser. I guess that's the question what's more
important: system preferences (x-www-browser via /etc/alternatives
or user preferences via ~/.gconf). YMMV.


HTH


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages icedove depends on:
ii  debianutils             3.2.2            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig              2.8.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libasound2              1.0.21a-1        shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.28.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-5         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.8-2          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.20-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.84-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.3-2        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.22.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.18.6-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62               6b-16            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d             4.8.3-1          NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d              3.12.5-2         Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.26.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsqlite3-0            3.6.22-1         SQLite 3 shared library
ii  libstartup-notification 0.10-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.3-2          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.5-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc                  22.10-1          utilities that use the proc file s
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages icedove recommends:
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.24.2-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgnome2-0                2.28.0-1      The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.24.2-2    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.17-2   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                   1.15-1        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  myspell-en-us [myspell-dic 1:3.2.0~rc2-1 English_american dictionary for my

Versions of packages icedove suggests:
pn  latex-xft-fonts               <none>     (no description available)
ii  libthai0                      0.1.13-1   Thai language support library

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